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Home > People > Emeritus, Staff & Researchers > Al Keali'i Chock

Al Keali'i Chock

  Adjunct Instructor & Lecturer


AbD, University of Michigan, 1955
MS in Botany, University of Hawai'i, 1953
BA (Botany major/Anthropology minor),
    University of Hawai'i, 1951
AA, Hannibal-LaGrange College (Mo.), 1949


Contact Information
Phone: (808) 956-7735
Email: alchock@hawaii.edu
Office: St. John 405D


Affiliations
Botany

Research Interests:

  • Ethnobotany of Hawai'i and the Pacific


  • Ethnobotany of North American indigenous peoples (as compared with Hawai'i)

Personal Statement:

I was born in Honolulu, and grew up in Waikiki and Bingham Tract (lowest Manoa). My father had the lease for Weli Fish Pond (now Ft. Shafter Flats). I attended the English standard system of schools, dropping out of Roosevelt High School at the end of my junior year.

I was the second person to teach Botany 105 after Dr. Harold St. John, and changed the course emphasis from coconuts to Hawaiian plants. I also taught (1961-67) General Botany (then Botany 100), Flower and Tree Identification (Botany 160), and Science for Secondary School Teachers (Science 650-651). I continued to teach ethnobotany in the summers after we moved to the Mainland and Europe. I participated in the current Botany 105 course revision.

I retired from the Foreign Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1992, having served as an International Regional Director and Plant Health Attache. I was the Plant Quarantine Officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), from 1975 to 1978. Other Federal agencies that I've been with include the Department of Interior (National Park Service), Army & Air Force Exchange Service (European Exchange System), and Environmental Protection Service (Office of Pesticide Programs).

My interests in Hawaiian Ethnobotany have been primarily in developing lists of cultural plant uses and obtaining more data about these uses.


Awards:

  • Biographical citations in Marquis Who's Who in the World (since 1984), Marquis Who's Who in the East (1982-92), Marquis Who's Who in The West (1993-96), Marquis Who's Who in America (since 1996), and Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering (since 1995)


  • USDA, Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, Foreign Service Employee of the Year, 1991


  • Hawai'i Kupuna Hula Festival (competition), first place, couples group, 1998 and 1999


  • American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) National Dance Association (NDA), Paludit Award (for significant contributions to the field of dance), 2005
Publications:

2007:
  • Chock, Al Keali'i. Some Trees in Hawai'i. Prepared for the Field Day at the University of Hawai'I at Manoa (July 28, 2007), International Society of Arboriculture, 83rd Annual Conference & Trade Show, Honolulu. 30 pp.


  • Chock, Al Keali'i. Canoe Plants: Five Pacific Trees, IN: Introductory Ethnobotany Video Series, Plant Origins & Oceanic Cultures. (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/ethnobtoany/modules/fivepacifictrees.html)

2006:
  • Chock, Yona B. & Alvin Keali'i Chock. Dance More Through Colonial American History. IN: Nancy Jo Kane, Compiler, National Dance Association Proceedings 2006:105-110. American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston VA.
2005:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i and Michael B. Thomas. An e-Field Guide to Early Human Plant Introductions to Hawai'i. (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/bot105/canoeplants/index.html)


  • Chock, Yona B. & Alvin Keali'i Chock. Dance Through Colonial American History. IN: Colleen Dean, Compiler, National Dance Association Proceedings 2005. 5 pp.

2003:
  • Chock, Yona B. & Alvin Keali'i Chock. Dancing Through American History - Exploring America on Foot, IN: Proceedings of the National Dance Association, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, April 1-5, 2003, Philadelphia, PA, 4 pp.
2001:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. The Role of Indio-Pacific Fruits in Ancient and Modern Hawaiian Culture. Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge, May 28-June 2, 2001, Honolulu, Hawai'i, p. 47.
1995:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. Hawaiian Ethnobotany. XVIII Pacific Science Congress, June 5-12, 1995, Beijing China (Population, Resources, and Environment), Collection of Abstracts, p. 311.


  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. Plant Quarantine: Why - What - How - Where - Who. XVIII Pacific Science Congress, June 5-12, 1995, Beijing China (Population, Resources, and Environment), Collection of Abstracts, p. 241.
1990:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. Phytosanitary requirements for plant products. IN: Paull, Robert E. (ed.), Symposium on Tropical Fruit in International Trade, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 4-9, 1989, Acta Horticulturae no. 269:441-448.
1984:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. Plant quarantine and plant protection. Med. Fac. Landbouww., Rijksuniv. Gent, 49/2a:127-138.
1983:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. International cooperation on controlling exotic pests. IN: Charles L. Wilson and Charles L. Graham (eds.), Exotic Pests and North American Agriculture, pp. 479-498. Academic Press, New York.
1979:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. The International Plant Protection Convention, IN: D. L. Ebbels & J. E. King (eds.). Plant Health, the Scientific Basis for Administrative Control of Plant Diseases and Pests, a conference held by the Federation of British Plant Pathologists, the Association of Applied Biologists, and the British Mycological Society, pp. 1-11. Blackwell Sci. Pub., Oxford.
1973:
  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i and Gerald L. Addicott (compilers). 1973. Favorite Songs of the Hawaii State Society. 106 pp., Hawaii State Society of Washington, DC.


  • Chock, Alvin Keali'i. Applications for registration of pesticides, IN: Federal Regulations and Registration of Microbiological Pesticides, Society for Industrial Microbiology spec. pub. 5:9-24.
1968:
  • Chock, Alvin K. Hawaiian ethnobotanical studies I: Native food and beverage plants. Econ. Bot. 22:221-238.  pdf
1963:
  • Chock, Alvin K. Joseph F. Rock, 1884-1962, Amer. Hort. Mag. 42:158-167.


  • Chock, Alvin K. J. F. Rock, 1884-1962, Quarterly Bulletin of the American Rhododendron Society 1:66-72 and 130-137.


  • Chock, Alvin K. J F. Rock, 1884-1962. Taxon 12:89-102.  pdf


  • Chock, Alvin K. J. F. Rock, 1884-1962. Hawn. Bot. Soc. Newsletter (HBSN) 2:1-9.


  • Chock, Alvin K., E. H. Bryan, Jr., and L. Marks. 1963. Bibliography of J. F. Rock. HBSN 2:10-13.
1956:
  • Chock, Alvin K.. and Dean C. Hamilton, Jr. 1962. Plants of Christmas Island. Atoll Res. Bul. 90:1-7.
   
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